Metabolic medicines dominated life sciences headlines in 2024, a trend expected to continue into the new year. Other things to look for include more widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies and the IPO market’s return to normal levels. The post Biopharma in 2025: Outlook for Obesity Meds, Drug Prices, Regulation & More appeared first on…
As Medicare Advantage denial rates climb, health systems are dropping plans and steering patients back to traditional Medicare. Pearl Health CEO Michael Kopko thinks the original Medicare Advantage bargain has broken down — and that the model may never have been as efficient as policymakers assumed. The post As MA Denial Rates Rise, Hospitals Are…
From Pentagon contracts to patient care, the AI leader’s policy shifts matter. The post For Anthropic, Pragmatism Is the More Trustworthy Position appeared first on MedCity News.
Generalized risk-adjusted cost effectiveness analysis (GRACE) abandons the assumption of risk neutrality held by traditional cost effectiveness analysis (TCEA). While this sounds like a very technical issue, by allowing for risk aversion over quality of life, GRACE places a relatively higher value on treatments that improve health for more severe diseases and relatively lower value…
Weeks after the Trump administration reduced the number of childhood vaccine recommended for routine use, public trust in the CDC is at its lowest since the COVID-19 pandemic, and less than half are confident in federal agencies’ ability to make such recommendations. Among those who have heard about the revised recommendations, more say they expect…
Moving clinical data management to cloud platforms can carry myriad benefits for healthcare organizations. The post Bringing Clinical Data Management to the Cloud appeared first on MedCity News.
The free online book R for Health Technology Assessment has the answer: Markov models are characterised by a memoryless property called the Markov assumption or Markov property. Under the Markov assumption, movement of an individual from their current health state to a future one, conditional on both past and current health states, depends only on…
Digital health funding hit $7.4 billion in the first half of 2026, with megadeals absorbing nearly half of all capital. As AI becomes table stakes, founders and investors say the real differentiator is now domain expertise rather than technology. The post ‘The Moat is No Longer Technological’: How Digital Health Fundraising Changed in H1 appeared…
This issue brief provides new information about Medicaid home care program’s use of program integrity tools from KFF’s most recent survey of state Medicaid home care programs.
Hasta hace unos años, cualquier indicio de piojos solía ser suficiente para que mandaran al estudiante de vuelta a casa. Recién se le permitía regresar a la escuela cuando tenía la cabeza libre de bichitos. Pero las normas de “cero liendres” fueron reemplazadas por otras de “no exclusión”, que priorizan la asistencia a clase por…